Residents of a town in the Cuban province of Villa Clara can go weeks without running water due to power outages and infrastructure left to crumble due to decades of criminal neglect. Along with food, medicine, fuel, and power shortages, the water shortage is just another crisis Cubans have to deal with, and one the communist Castro dictatorship has found an opportunity to cash in.
The Cuban regime began selling bottled water to residents of the Van Toy 2 neighborhood in Caibarién, Villa Clara, through Dollar Collection Stores (TRD), amid a water crisis that has left Villa Clara residents without access to this resource.
According to several follow-up posts on the issue by government journalist Henry Omar Pérez, it was mentioned that the situation was caused by the collapse of Pump 8 nearly a month ago. “In response to the current emergency, a policy of distributing bottled water through the TRD store chain, associated with Commerce Warehouses, has been implemented,” Pérez wrote on social media.
Five-liter water jugs are sold for 85 Cuban pesos and are distributed using the rationing booklet. According to the reporter, they aim to cover 30 warehouses, “ensuring that the most vulnerable groups have access to this vital resource.”
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The residents were quick to question the measure, which exposes the regime’s inefficiency in ensuring citizens’ access to vital water, while profiting from such a crisis.
Oppression, poverty, and destruction are not the only hallmarks of socialism. As the communist Castro dictatorship clearly shows, so is predation and the abuse of those most vulnerable. This is socialism in action.
Hey, whatever will squeeze more money out of the “diaspora” is fair game. Ka-ching!